TM Full system recovery does not see my backup folder
Hello to you all Apple/Mac lovers ,
So, as the title mentions, I need to do a full system backup after an HD failure. No problem so far my last backup was 11 minutes before the problem happened. Now, I re-installed Leopard and followed the instructions to proceed to a full system recovery. But the recovery software does not detect my external hard-disk or does not see the backup in it ... what's wrong ? What information would you need to help me solve that ? Thanks in advance ,
Charles
Are you doing this from within the Leopard installer or is this post installation? If the latter are you trying to migrate from your TM backup in Setup Assistant or are you simply trying to do a basic restore from your TM backup drive? If the latter be sure you change the Computer Name in Sharing preferences to match the one used before your reinstall.
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